Diagnostic dilemma: Teenager contracts rare ‘welder’s anthrax,’ marking the ninth known case ever reported
A teenager training to be a welder contracted a rare and dangerous lung infection, prompting a combined state and federal investigation.
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A teenager training to be a welder contracted a rare and dangerous lung infection, prompting a combined state and federal investigation.
NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 moves toward the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. The crawler will transport
We ask Matilda Brindle, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford.
Despite well-established links between pathogens and chronic illness, the U.S. government continues to weaken public health measures to treat and prevent infectious diseases — a
A review of over 500 reports of cannibalistic behavior in snakes finds it’s appeared multiple times in different evolutionary lineages, leading researchers to hypothesize it’s
A new study analyzed brain MRI scans from 26 astronauts and found that the longer someone lived in space, the more their brain shifted in
Planets are born, and they can also “die.” So what’s the lifespan of a typical planet?
A new vaccine design uses folded DNA to steer the immune system toward producing the rare immune cells needed to make protective antibodies against HIV.
New research using a space-time phenomenon predicted by Einstein presents evidence that the invisible backbone of the universe may be much “fuzzier” than we realized.
A researcher from the University of Essex dives into the philosophical and ethical questions surrounding “deathbots.”
Researchers were once unsure whether mantle earthquakes existed. Now they have a global map of this mysterious phenomenon.
The carbon emissions of the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter have plateaued for nearly two years.
The crew will spend the next eight months conducting experiments to prepare for human exploration beyond Earth’s orbit. (Image credit: NASA)
A rock shelter with rock art and inscriptions spanning millennia has been discovered in Egypt.